Dose-measuring bottle.



A. WINEMAN. DOSE MEASURING BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION FILED 11017.13, 1911.

Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 13, 191i.

Patented Nov. 19, twi

Serial No. 659,919.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANDREW WINEMAN, a citizenof the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State ofMichigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inDose-Measuring Bottles, and declare the following to be a full, clear,

.and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanyin drawings, which form a part of this specication.-

Ihis invention relates to dose measuring receptacles and has for itsobject a receptacle or bottle which is especially designed for travelersin order that a spoon may be dispensed with.

The construction of the-bottle is such that the dose measuringcompartment, so that when the dose enters therein, it may be confinedthere until it has been taken by the user, who applies his lips to theaperture closed by a second and smaller stopper.

In the drawings :'Figure 1,. is a Vertical section of the bottle. Fig.2, is a vertical section of a modified form.

1, is a bottle of ordinary shape, provided \with a neck 2 that has a.suspended portion 3. -At one side and at the top, the bottle is providedwith an aperture 4 which leads into a portion of the bottle interior,which is partitioned 0% into a separate compartment by the partition 5that joins the side of the bottle wall with the depending neck extension3.- A passage 6 leads from the compartment 7 to the interior of the neckportion, so that when the main stopper 8 is pushed down, it acts as aclosure for the passage 6. v

When it is desired to fill the dose measuring compartment, the stopper 8is raised slightly so as to bring it above the passage 6, the bottle isthen tilted and some of its contents allowed to run into the compartment7, when the stopper again is pushed down, thereby closing thecompartment. When it is desired to take the dose, the user removes thesmall stopper 9 that engages in the aperture 4: and applies his lips tothis aperture. This compartment maybe made in Various shapes, itdepending on the use to which the bottle is'tobe put. made to ,hold ateaspoonful, or twoteaportion havin It "may be spoonsful, or it may beused to hold a tablespoonful, or graduations may be placed upon the wallof the bottle adjacent this compartment to represent different measurements.

Fig. 2, shows the same invention embodied in a bottle of somewhatdifierent design. In this bottle the suspended neck portion 3is omitted,While the partition 5 is formed when the bottle is being manufactured byinserting a piece of metal through the side wall of the bottle causingthat wall to double upon itself as shown at 5, leaving the passage at 6.This afiords a convenient and cheap method of manufacture. The

stopper 8 comes down below the passage 6 and also acts as a closuretherefor. Otherwise the measuring compartment is the same as in Fig. l.

What I claim is 1. A dose measuring receptacle, having in combination areceptacle provided with a neck, a separate compartment opening into thereceptacle portion proper at or near the neck, an ordinary stopper, suchas a cork or a wooden or rubber plug, adapted to control the mainpassage through the neck and also control the passage from the neck intothe compartment and a stopper adapted to close the aperture leading fromthe outside into said compartment, scribed. I

2. In' a bottle, a body portion and a neck portion, a partition in thebody portion forming with the wall of the body portion a dose measuringreceptacle, said measuring receptacle having a lateral inlet opening insubstantial ahnement with the wall of the neck portion, and the wall ofthe body an outlet opening for said receptacle, an a stopper for theneck por tion of the bottle, said stopper being of a length to overliethe inlet opening of the measuring receptacle and adapted to slide -insaid neck whereby to expose the inlet opening of the measuringreceptacle while maintaining closed the neck of the bottle.

In testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

VIRGINIA C. SPRATTT. STUART O. BARNES.

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